Senior government figure Senator Eric Abetz stumbled over his answer when asked to name the ways Prime Minister Tony Abbott has changed.

After surviving a vote on a leadership spill earlier this month, Mr Abbott said: 'I've listened, I've learnt and I've changed and the government will change with me.'

On Monday during Senate Estimates, Labor Senate leader Penny Wong asked Senator Abetz to list the ways the Prime Minister is now different.

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Senior government figure Senator Eric Abetz stumbled over his answer when asked to name the ways Prime Minister Tony Abbott has changed

After surviving a vote on a leadership spill earlier this month, Mr Abbott said: 'I've listened, I've learnt and I've changed and the government will change with me.'

'Look the Prime Minister is an exceptionally capable and good individual and sometimes the good even gets better, and that is what the Prime Minister has committed himself to doing—to be, as he said publicly, more consultative with the backbench and with the community,' Senator Abetz replied.

Senator Wong then asked: 'And so is the "I've changed" being more consultative with the backbench and the community?'